That "Yehceb" Oat.—The New York " News" got the following from a small boy t " The cat which we had fore we get Mose was jeller, and didn't have no ears, and not eny tail, too, con they were cut off to make it go away from where it lived, for it was so ugly, as it cum to our house. One day my mother she aed wudent my father drown it, CO3 she knew where she cude get a nicer lukio. one. So my father put it in a bag, and a brick in the bag too, and threw it in the pond, and went to his office, my father did. But the cat busted the bag string, and wen my father he cum home it was lying under the) sofa, but cum out to look at him. So they looked at one" another for a long wile, and bime by my father aed to my mother : " Well, you are a mity poor hand to go a shoppie* for cats. Thisn is a site uglier than the other!"
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1975, 23 June 1880, Page 3
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